Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
That this particular type of Good tends to come by way of contraptions that would make Rube Goldberg shudder and sigh with genuine concern should be considered superficially incidential.
And now this dynamic duo has come to the big screen in their first feature-length effort, "Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit", where they face their greatest challenge to date: Lady Tottington (voiced by Helena Bonham Carter) is holding her family's 517th annual Giant Vegetable Fete, which attracts gardeners for miles around, who caress their massive melons, stroke their gigantic zucchinis, and the likes, and Wallace and Gromit have been employed to provide security, which basically means keeping rabbits out of the garden.
They do so by way of their company, Anti-Pesto, which uses humane methods: They do not shoot or poison the would-be intruders. Instead, courtesy of Wallace, they use an invention, the Bun-Vac, to suck up rabbits from their holes, into a giant holding tube, which then transports them to Anti-Pesto headquarters, where they can and do dine on vegetables.
Means and methods that sufficiently satisfy Lady Tottington.
Therein is something a problem: Anti-Pesto has a rival and enemy in Lord Victor Quartermaine (voiced by Ralph Fiennes), a gun wielding lunatic who sports a toupee the likes of which has never been seen before. Lord Victor has one goal: To marry Lady Tottington and lay waste to her, her gardens, and her family fortune, which he will use eventually for his own gain and purpose. Of course, to do that requires discrediting and destroying Anti-Pesto. And to do that requires the Were-Rabbit, a gigantic animal that sports a red polka dot tie, that terrorizes the neighborhood and inspires the Reverend Clement Hedges (voiced by Nicholas Smith) to emote biblical dire utterances: For our sins a hideous creature has been sent to punish us.
Of course the arrival of this threat calls for Wallace to invent yet another invention: The Mind-O-Matic, which is intended to brainwash the rabbits, and convince them they do not like vegetables.
Please note: I said the intention of the Mind-O-Matic is to do this. The intention, I must report and reveal, is not fulfilled.
Which leads to antics and howls and wonders and delights unlike anything currently available in the movie theater. Of course, how many other films and movies can claim a white dog made of Plasticine, that does not speak but says it all?
I noted previously that Wallace and
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